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Sára Bennő
… a BA in Liberal Arts – with a specialisation in Art History and a minor in Literature – from the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE BTK) in 2022. Since the autumn of 2023, she has been pursuing her MA, also in Art History, at the same university. Before starting her graduate studies, she completed her internship at the Archive and Documentation Centre of the Central European Research Institute for Art History – Museum of Fine Arts (KEMKI ADK). Since 2023, she has …
Sára Bárdi
… during World War II. The focus of her research is the history of interwar Hungarian art and visual culture with special emphasis on the relationship between art and politics, as well as the genres of exhibitions and posters. Between 2020 and 2024 she worked as a museologist in the Hungarian National Gallery – Collection of Print and Drawings. List of publications Publications
The Design Center Archives
… of Industrial Textile Art. Of these, the exhibition entitled Heritage: Object and Environmental Culture in Hungary 1945–1985, which was held at the Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest in 1985, is especially noteworthy. The Design Center also launched the Let’s Design Objects youth competition, which ran for several years and was accompanied by a television program as well. /Eszter Szőnyeg-Szegvári/
Archives of the Lectorate of Fine and Applied Arts
… supervision of the Ministry of Education, was one of the most important executive institutions of cultural policy before the regime change. Essentially functioning as a bureau of art censorship, the Lectorate had a definitive role in regulating the Hungarian art scene until 1989. From 1963 to 1990, the Lectorate had authority in virtually every field of fine and applied arts, autonomous art, and design. The Lectorate’s decades-long operations are recorded in a collection of complexly diverse …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
… available for research never-before-seen images of artists and researchers connected with visual culture, such as János Vető, László Rajk, László feLugossy, and Miklós Peternák. The portrait collection also contains high-quality previously unpublished images of many prominent artists and contributors of the contemporary Hungarian photography scene. In addition to a collection of sixty-six film rolls (over 700 frames), György Tóth also included sixty-two signed digital prints, which had …